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Congleton

Polluted by sewage 712 times in 2025 lasting 2,610 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Congleton in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 627 hours of sewage overflows, from 83 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Congleton in 2025

33 Sites polluted by United Utilities
712 sewage dumps
2,610 hours duration
That's 3.62 months. On average 2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Congleton in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency 1 of the total 37 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Dane HOLMES CHAPEL STW 39 561 99.1
United Utilities Kidsgrove Stream LAWTON GATE WWTW 57 539 99.75
United Utilities Kidsgrove Stream Wheelock KIDSGROVE WWTW 27 274 99.9
United Utilities Loach Brook WEST HEATH PUMPING STATION 28 214 100
United Utilities Dane In Shaw Brook BERISFORDS COMPOUND CSO 131G3 58 174 99.9
United Utilities River Dane CONGLETON STW 34 136 99.95
United Utilities River Dane EATON BANK CSO 131S4 64 107 99.2
United Utilities Dane-In-Shaw Brook MILL LANE CSO (134I5) 30 83 99.5
United Utilities River Dane ALSAGER STW 19 75 96.8
United Utilities Trent CHESTNUT AVENUE PS 23 66 95.1
United Utilities River Croco COOKESMERE LANE 12 56 99.8
United Utilities Arclid Brook FRONT STREET CSO 13521 40 54 100
United Utilities River Dane Via Sws THE GRANGE CONGLETON CSO 40 53 99.8
United Utilities River Wheelock MILL HILL LANE CSO 132F8 23 23 100
United Utilities River Wheelock SANDBACH WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 12 23 100
United Utilities Trent And Mersey Canal THURLWOOD NO.1 PS 24 21 99.8
United Utilities Unnamed River Wheelock MIDDLEWICH ROAD CSO 131AD 15 21 99.9
United Utilities Valley Brook 58/64 AUDLEY ROAD CSO 23 21 100
United Utilities River Wheelock BROOKHOUSE GREEN WASTEWATER WORKS 6 15 99.8
United Utilities Clvrtd Section Of Brook Mill BROOK MILL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 13 15 71.8
United Utilities River Dane Via Sws BROMLEY RD CORONATION RD CSO 131GZ 23 12 95.9
United Utilities Day Green Stream 113 HASSALL RD CSO 11 11 71.5
United Utilities River Wheelock HASSALL ROAD CSO 131X8 15 10 96
United Utilities Trent And Mersey Canal MOSS LANE SANDBACH 138CF 14 9 99
United Utilities River Dane HAVANNAH STREET/ REDFERN AVE CSO 14 8 100
United Utilities Cresswellshawe Brook Via Sws ASHEMORES LANE LAWTON RD CSO 131CE 17 7 94.6
United Utilities Cresswellshawe Brk Via Sws 29 CRESSWELLSHAWE RD B CSO 13567 8 2 95
United Utilities Cresswellshawe Brk Via Sws 29 CRESSWELLSHAWE RD A CSO 13567 12 2 99.9
United Utilities Dane-In-Shaw Brook CASTLE INN ROAD MOSSLEY CSO 2 1 99.9
United Utilities Valley Brook HASSALL RD CREWE RD CSO 131QJ 4 0 99.9
United Utilities Valley Brook Via Sws AUDLEY RD/TALKE RD JUNCTION CSO 2 0 42.8
United Utilities River Dane Via Sws BROMLEY ROAD CSO 2 0 98.8
United Utilities River Wheelock CREWE ROAD MILL LANE CSO 138CG 1 0 96.3
United Utilities River Croco ALUM BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
United Utilities River Dane DANE STREET CSO 131Q1 0 0 96
United Utilities Cresswellshawe Brook Via Sws LAWTON ROAD WESLEY AVE CSO 132CM 0 0 99
United Utilities River Dane Via S/Water Sewer SEFTON AVENUE CSO (CON0090) 0 0 95.8

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

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